"ZMagazine is an independant magazine of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economiclife in the U.S. It sees the racial, gender, class, and political dimensions of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances; and it aims to assist activist efforts for a better future."

This is how ZMag describes itself. It is published in Cambridge, MA, by Lydia Sargent, Eric Sargent and Michael Albert.

It also runs an annual Z Media Institute, a summer school in politics, media, computer skills, etc. (In June, so I have never been able to attend, as my academic year extends until the end of June.)

Unlike The Nation, ZMag publishes many who are nowhere nearly as well known. In so many ways they cover the same ground, and one will find The Nation mentioned in ZMag, thought not so often the reverse.